I want to be a faded person for life

To be honest, if it came to close combat, she wouldn't be too afraid of such a slow-moving giant.

Whether it was destroying the joints or trying to extinguish the core, it was something she could do, but the problem was distance.

Their current location was about 800 meters away from the city gate. Even if she rode Torret, it would take her 30 seconds to reach the foot of the colossus.

This time is enough for the opponent to shoot three or four more arrows.

"Then should we consume the number of arrows?"

After a rough count, there are more than ten iron stakes under the city wall.

If she had to say it, she should be able to use up all the arrows if she died a few more times. However, she didn't know if there were any other supplies in the city. If she shot down ten iron stakes and there were still a hundred in the city, it would be meaningless.

Moreover, it is not cost-effective to spend a lot of blessings on such an enemy. Even if you have accumulated a lot, you cannot waste it like this.

There is another relic stone more than a hundred meters away. Moving there can shorten the distance slightly, but it is still far from the feet of the golem.

When the soul-summoning bell was rang, the soul jellyfish turned around in place like a girl holding up her skirt, and Kulala, who had been strengthened by the soul-summoning, appeared beside Xiangzi.

After the spirit was adjusted, the other party's color changed from the original light blue translucent to deep red. The jellyfish's umbrella cap turned into a wide and soft hat, and the part below the umbrella cap was a young girl floating in the air.

"Master...it seems like you haven't summoned me for a long time."

Kulala's tone was a little resentful.

Being stared at by such a face and being addressed in such a shameful way made Xiangzi feel even more guilty.

Driving such a child to the battlefield was something she found difficult to accept.

"Feel sorry."

Xiangzi touched her soft umbrella cover.

"Let me make it clear first, my venom has no effect on golems. Even using acid mist to corrode them is completely useless."

"I don't need direct killing power, Kulala. After adjusting the spirit, how large an area can your poison mist cover?"

Xiangzi raised such a question.

"Um......"

The jellyfish girl pondered.

"A hundred meters on the plain is the limit. Any larger than that and the density won't be maintained, and it won't achieve the desired effect of blocking vision."

"Actually, I've thought of a more effective method."

"what way?"

Xiangzi asked quickly.

"In fact, the master only needs to summon as many of us as possible: me, the wolf, the sword fighter uncle, the knight sister, and the gatekeeper."

The soul jellyfish played with its two longest tentacles, like a girl curling her hair.

"As long as there are enough targets and they move separately, the Colossus should be unable to select a target."

"It doesn't matter if we get shot, we can recover in a day anyway."

"But this... is simply sending you to your deaths."

Xiangzi hesitated a bit. If it was Dolan and Gotok, it would be fine. But letting such a young child serve as a scapegoat for him was really...

"Don't get hung up on this. Master wants to be king, right? A king needs to be decisive—show the same courage you showed me in Stonewell City."

"We are knights serving the future king!"

The jellyfish made a sword-standing gesture

Chapter 36 The King's Thirty Seconds

Xiangzi repeated his previous actions and arrived behind the second relic stone without any danger.

However, with the experience of the first aiming, the Colossus indeed adjusted the aiming direction to take her temporary change of direction into account.

Although there was still a certain distance of deviation, this trick could not be used for the third time.

This place is more than 600 meters away from the bottom of the city wall, and it will take more than 20 seconds to reach the attack range from here.

Torret rubbed the girl's palm with his wet nose, and three wild wolves surrounded her feet, wagging their tails. Except for Gotok, no one objected to Kulala and Xiangzi's opinions.

Knight Commander Dolan did not dislike the feeling of dancing on the edge of a knife.

"The only thing I find difficult to adapt to is that spirits don't have blood."

Ignoring the female knight's complaints, Xiangzi clenched his fists.

"...Okay, let's go."

Kulala puffed out her cheeks and blew out a thick purple-red poisonous cloud. Under the intentionally controlled wind pressure, the poisonous cloud spread out in a fan shape towards the city gate.

The golem stretched out its bow and vaguely caught sight of several figures emerging from the thick purple fog.

"It doesn't matter."

Golems were programmed with war-related logic in ancient times. On the battlefield, the first targets to be shot were of course the cavalry, so they only needed to aim at the mounted targets.

With the speed of the infantry, they can shoot them all before they reach their feet.

Therefore, trickery is useless.

It could already vaguely see the target on the horse's back. It didn't need to aim precisely, just judge the general direction, and then it shot the first arrow.

"Shit, I knew it!"

The gatekeeper Gotok, who was tied to Torret's back with a rope, cursed loudly. In less than half a second, he and the spirit horse turned into smoke and disappeared.

The opponent did not show any clever evasive movements, nor did he struggle at all. He even disappeared too naturally, as if he had already begun to disappear before being hit.

The Colossus used its own war logic to determine that it was a bait and that the enemy knight had replaced the mounted unit.

The one-eye under the giant caged helmet turned, the furnace core burned more vigorously, and molten liquid metal was discharged from the golem's joints.

The new suspicious unit was not difficult to identify; it had taken the second arrow.

In the few seconds it took to retrieve the arrow, the scattered enemies entered the 500-meter range.

Sure enough, it should be the one riding on the back of a wolf. Although it is slower than a warhorse, the wolf cavalry is also a high-threat unit.

Boom! A dull sound emanated from a string made of some unknown material.

The golem fired a second arrow.

Dolores whimpered. She wasn't hit, but the female knight grabbed the back of her neck and threw her out of the range of the arrow.

The knight's sword rubbed against the iron stake, producing dazzling sparks. She tried to reduce the force, but the sword was still broken by the overwhelming force. The knight also spun rapidly for several times and then lay on the ground, unable to get up in a short time.

There is no stopping and the armor is not quite the same.

The golem then took three arrow-shaped iron stakes from the ground. The time it took to take the arrows had brought the target within three hundred meters, a distance that was already quite dangerous.

But it doesn't matter, there are not many target units left.

The third priority target was not the wild wolf with its back empty, but the golden-helmeted swordsman whose running speed was almost the same as that of the beast.

There was a hint of blue on the opponent's shoulder, which was consistent with the characteristics observed in the first unit, so there should be no mistake.

Tall warriors can also serve as mounted units, which is not uncommon in some cultures.

The bowstring made a dull sound for the third time.

The girl screamed, released the two tentacles that were sucking on the pumpkin helmet, and floated into the sky - Kulala, who had spit out venom, turned back to light blue.

The sword fighter and the soul jellyfish dissipated into smoke, again vanishing before being fully hit.

The remaining two wild wolves have already entered 200 meters -

One hundred and fifty meters.

One hundred meters.

The golem fell into confusion. It could no longer make priority judgments and could only mechanically take the third arrow.

The wolf circled around its body, one on the left and one on the right, and this time there was a fifty percent chance of hitting the target.

The golem bent its bow and aimed it at its feet. One of the wolves suddenly raised its head and roared, and faint starlight appeared on both sides of her head.

Is he casting a spell by hanging his body on the side of the wolf?

Spellcasting ability - there will be no mistakes this time, but such weak pyroxene magic cannot penetrate the golem's solid shell.

The pyroxene grit machine struck the golem's legs and, as expected, shattered them, like ice breaking on rock.

However, the object that the golem was aiming at with its single eye suddenly turned into smoke and disappeared, just like before.

"—You guessed wrong again."

Under the belly of the smallest Mortis, Shoko Toyokawa, who was hanging upside down, rang the soul-calling bell to send back the spirit of Amores, the only one with the ability to cast spells. Blood kept pouring out of her nose and flew backwards, staining the wolf's white fur red.

-

Time goes back to before.

"I don't completely agree with this plan. If it's just about letting you die, then this kind of thing needs to be rejected... If we're going to do it, we have to choose the most perfect plan."

Xiangzi took off his helmet and changed into armor to reduce some of the weight, but it was still a bit difficult for Mortis, the smallest one, to bear the full set of heavy armor.

"I'll hide under Mortis's belly and follow the team at the end to observe everyone's positions. Every time someone is about to be hit, I'll use the Soul Summoning Bell to dispel the spirits in advance and reduce the damage you take."

"Besides, this will also reduce the burden on me to summon you. It's the best of both worlds."

Xiangzi placed his hands on her soft chest.

"Although you have made up your mind, if you want to be king, it would not be wise to wantonly sacrifice your knights, right?"

Kulala spun around happily.

"As expected of our king!"

"——I never felt that I had any enlightenment. Damn it, get me off the horse!"

This is Gotok tied to the saddle.

"Don't rush to send me back. I want to try to catch the next arrow."

This is Knight Commander Dolan licking his lips.

-

Fifty meters.

Thirty meters.

ten meters.

The colossus took a step back, turning 180 degrees from the waist up behind it, but even then it was too late.

The storm-wrapped mad blade pierced into the colossus's heel, dragging it and leaving a huge incision, and a large amount of orange-red molten lava flowed out from the incision.

The golem, with its leg joints broken, was unable to maintain its balance under its enormous weight and fell forward uncontrollably.

With four shining swords floating beside him, Xiangzi dragged the Lost Knight's halberd he picked up from the corpse onto the ground, creating dazzling sparks.

As Mortis sped forward, she swung her long pole and thrust her halberd into the furnace on the golem's chest. The molten lava splashed several meters away like a waterfall, burning large scorch marks on the ground.

"A beautiful blow"

This is the logic of war, and there is no more direct and sharp puncture than this.

The golem's single eye went out and stopped functioning.

Chapter 37: Please do not harm those traveling with you

Xiangzi rolled off Mortis's back, raised his hands to cover his mouth and nose, and blood seeped out from between his fingers like it was free.

My vision is a little blurry.

She raised her head and took a big sip of the dew in the holy grail bottle. The refreshing bitterness along with the pungent taste of rust rushed into her throat, immediately making her feel much more sober.

"Thanks so much to you and everyone else..."

Xiangzi rubbed Mortis's head as she tried to lick her healed wound.

The little wolf whimpered softly, and there were several fresh wounds in the shape of finger marks on the part of its abdomen where the fur had fallen off.

Xiangzi took a look at the wolf hair standing on the gauntlet and realized what had just happened. It was probably because he scratched Mortis's soft flesh too hard when he was hanging upside down in the wolf's belly.

"Sorry, sorry... was I too hard just now?"