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However, at this time, Hermann Green's voice rang out again: "Stop the attack, assemble, and follow me!"

Costa had no choice but to put down his war hammer, steer his horse, knock away the zombies, and catch up with the cavalry team that had already started to move quickly.

It was not until they reached the hill where Charlotte and the others were that Costa realized what had just happened - Charlotte and Ed Adkins' knights team had captured the location of the necromancer and almost caught him.

The necromancer must have been too panicked and stopped controlling the zombies. The zombies lost the orders from their superiors, so they launched an attack on the knights based on their instincts.

call……

A giant eagle landed on the slope. Knight Jack Moore jumped off the eagle's back and reported the results of his investigation to Charlotte: "There is no one to help us at sea. There are only a few small fishing boats in the village."

"Yes," Charlotte nodded, feeling the sea breeze blowing in her face, looking at the sun that had already touched the horizon, and instructed Hermann Green, "Have everyone dismount, and then divide all the knights and squires into two teams. One team will be responsible for building a defense line and keeping an eye on the Herring Village, while the other team will rest, eat some dry food, drink some water, and recover their strength. Then the two teams will take turns."

"Yes."

Hermann Green immediately went to carry out Charlotte's orders.

Unlike Cow Bell Village which only faces the sea on one side, Bluefish Village is surrounded by the sea on three sides. This means that Charlotte only needs to line up more than 20 knights and more than 100 squire knights to easily block the necromancer in the village.

All the knights took turns to replenish their food and water and regain their strength. At this time, the sun had completely sunk below the horizon, and night fell. The squires lit torches, but Charlotte still had no intention of attacking the Blue Fish Village.

In Qingyu Village, in a simple thatched house, lights flickered.

Legba Dando ate coarse black bread and salted fish with cold water. These things were hard to swallow, but he had no choice. He had killed everyone in the village, and he had never even made a fire before, let alone cooked. He certainly couldn't do it.

Legba Dando couldn't help but think of the hostess who cooked a pot of chicken soup for him - if only he hadn't killed her at that time.

Although he was reluctant to admit it, Legba Dando did feel regret.

This is not just because I didn't keep that woman to cook for me...

Regba Dando looked towards the north of the village, looking at the long line of conspicuous torches, he couldn't help but recall the scene of the cavalry rushing towards him not long ago. If he was trampled by the heavily armored knights, Regba Dando knew without thinking that he would be turned into meat paste. The feeling of almost brushing shoulders with death still makes him feel scared.

The Viscount of Lanwan was not as easy to deal with as he had previously thought.

Why didn't those Lanwan Knights attack? What were they waiting for? Did they want to trap me and starve me to death?

Legba Dando couldn't figure it out, so he could only try his best to get the main force of zombies to come back as soon as possible to save him.

As for escaping by boat, the giant eagle that occasionally appeared and circled in the sky made Legba Dando give up this idea. If the Viscount Lanwan was right across, he would definitely be happy to see him escape by sea. The thin-skinned small fishing boats in the village could not withstand the impact of the giant eagle weighing thousands of pounds. Once they fell into the sea, he would have no power to resist.

Legba Dando was so absorbed in his thoughts that he did not notice that the candle beside him had stopped flickering.

On the small hill outside the village, Charlotte noticed that the sea breeze had died down.

It is indeed winter, and the temperature drops quickly at night. Charlotte thought to herself, stood up, and ordered Herman Green: "Start the attack."

After the order was given, the knights who were sitting and resting stood up one by one. They changed their equipment according to Charlotte's request. They put away their swords and replaced them with long-handled war hammers in one hand and large shields in the other.

The squire knights were the first to give the signal for the attack, and they fired two rounds of rockets at the Qingyu Village with bows and arrows in hand. The thatched roofs of the village were set on fire, and it would be best if the necromancer could be burned to death, but if not, it would at least provide light for the attacking team.

More than a hundred knights were divided into two teams, holding shields and advancing towards the village, like two slowly moving steel walls.

The rain of fire from the sky awakened the reverie of Legba Dando, and he immediately realized that the enemy had finally begun the attack.

The main force of the zombie army is still on the way back!

Gradually, despair arose in Legba Dando's heart. He ordered the zombies of Cowbell Village to attack the rear of the Lanwan Knights at all costs. The few remaining zombies in Qingyu Village were also dispatched to attack from the front and back with the zombies of Cowbell Village.

When the zombies became the more anxious party and took the initiative to attack the knights, the situation on the battlefield was reversed.

The zombies from Niu Ling Village ran into the knights in the rear, or more precisely, into the knights' heavy shields. The zombies' claws, teeth, and sticks, sickles, and kitchen knives they picked up from the village were completely useless against the heavy iron-clad shields. Even if they could barely force a gap between the shields, the zombies would still have to face the knights dressed like tin cans.

Just as the heavily armored knights were helpless in the face of these nimble zombies, now these zombies are just as powerless facing these iron cans.

"Ha ha!"

This time, Costa was assigned to the back team, and his opponents were still the zombies from Cowbell Village. He used his shield to hold off several zombies that were biting him madly. He was as steady as a rock and laughed very happily.

A zombie had already bitten off its teeth, and saliva with a rotten smell mixed with blood was flowing down the shield, but the shield was still intact.

Costa swung his long-handled war hammer and smashed the zombie's head with it, muttering to himself: "Why don't you run away? Run again! Come on, laugh at me with your intestines!" and other difficult words.

The situation on the rear battlefield was like this, and the situation on the front battlefield was even more one-sided.

The zombies that Legba Dando left behind in Qingyu Village were all the old, weak, sick and disabled people whom he had looked down upon before. These people were too weak when they were alive, and even if their fighting power was improved after death, it was still limited.

"Erect shield!"

Hermann Green ordered.

The knights in the front team raised their shields in unison, forming an impenetrable iron wall.

Bang bang bang.

Dull collision sounds were heard, and the zombies rushing out of Qingyu Village crashed into the iron wall, but the iron wall hardly moved at all.

"Enter!"

brush!

The knights in the front team pushed their shields and took a step forward in unison.

The zombies scratched and gnawed the shield, making a series of friction sounds that gave people goose bumps.

However, Hermann Green remained unmoved and gave another order: "Go!"

brush!

The knights in the front team pushed their shields forward.

The zombies, or rather the necromancer, were getting anxious, and they began throwing rocks at the shield. The rocks, big and small, hit Tin Can's helmet, and the only result was a clanging sound.

"Enter!"

Hermann Green gave the order again.

brush!

The knights in the front team moved forward again.

The steel wall keeps moving forward.

Hermann Green was too lazy to fight the zombies, so he just let the knights push the zombies back from the village step by step.

In front of these knights who have awakened their "strength amplification", the weak zombies can only be pushed to the ground.

Looking at the battle situation in front of her, Charlotte suddenly remembered a previous doubt - why did the army of the Orlan Empire not like to use giant eagles?

Isn’t one of the reasons for not liking it right in front of you?

Heavy armor, heavy shield, heavy sword, heavy hammer, these are the standard equipment of the Orlan Empire knights. The outstanding feature of this equipment style is its solidity.

Anyway, the ability of one wing of the Orlan Empire Knights is basically strength amplification, and they are all strong men, so there is no need to worry that they won't be able to carry it.

The total weight of this equipment plus a tall and strong knight may exceed 400 kilograms, while the weight of an adult giant eagle is about 1,000 kilograms. The reasonable load of a giant eagle should generally not exceed one-third of its body weight. A 400-kilogram knight is unlikely to be carried by a giant eagle.

If a knight is equipped with a giant eagle to carry equipment and a servant to take care of the equipment, like a cavalryman riding a warhorse, it would be a bit uneconomical. After all, although the cost of raising a giant eagle is lower than that of a griffin, it is still much higher than that of a warhorse.

Therefore, the Giant Eagle Knight seems a bit useless in the combat system of the Orlan Empire.

In stark contrast to Charlotte who still had time to think about the situation of the military system of the Orlan Empire, Regba Dando was completely panicked at this moment. The steel wall that was advancing step by step in an orderly manner put too much mental pressure on him.

Regba Dando paced around the village anxiously, all kinds of ideas coming to his mind and being rejected. Finally, Regba Dando decided - surrender!

"I surrender! Respected Viscount Lanwan, I am Legba Dando, the elder of the Feidi City-State! There may be some misunderstandings between us! I surrender!"

Charlotte suddenly heard such shouting coming from the Qingyu Village.

Hermann Green looked at Charlotte, who nodded, indicating that they could proceed as planned.

"stop!"

Herman Green ordered to stop the attack, and the zombies suddenly became quiet.

"If you want to surrender, then don't hide." Ryan Nasazz walked out of the queue and shouted loudly.

"Who are you?" the other party asked.

"My name is Ryan Nasazzi, a knight of Viscount Lanwan." Ryan Nasazzi replied.

"I don't want to talk to you. I only want to negotiate with Viscount Lanwan." the other party said.

Ryan Nasazzi had no choice but to look at Charlotte again.

Charlotte rode out of the front team, and two knights with shields protected her on both sides.

"I am Viscount Lanwan, Charlotte Melfield. If you want to negotiate, I'm here." Charlotte said.

The other party was obviously quite surprised. He was silent for a while before speaking again: "I heard that Viscount Lanwan is a man, how come you are a woman? Are you trying to deceive me?"

"The previous Viscount Lanwan was a man, and I am the new Viscount Lanwan appointed by His Majesty the Emperor." Charlotte explained.

"You really didn't lie to me?" The other party was still skeptical.

Charlotte frowned and said unhappily, "My last name is Melfield, and I am the daughter of the Duke of Greenfield. How can the Melfield family's thousand-year reputation be used to deceive a lowly person like you?"

"It's good that you didn't lie to me..." Legba Dando suddenly jumped out of the window of an adobe house. He held a ball of cyan (harmonious) gas in his left hand and a ball of purple (harmonious) gas in his right hand. He looked at Charlotte with a distorted expression and said, "You didn't lie to me, so please die!"

Legba Dando clasped his hands together, this was his trump card - corpse miasma.

Legba Dando's surrender was fake. He took the opportunity to get closer, determine the location of Viscount Lanwan, and release the poison gas. A stream of air with a faint dark green glow gushed out from him, as if it was going to engulf everything on the cape, including Charlotte and her knights.

Regba Dando looked at Charlotte with a grin, trying to find panic and fear on her face, but the next moment, Regba Dando saw a sarcastic smile that he would never forget until his death.

The wind blew from behind Charlotte, blowing Charlotte's black hair, blowing the swaying torches, blowing Legba Dando's poison gas all the way to the sea.

"The wind along the coast blows from the sea to the land during the day and from the land to the sea at night. This is a little common sense, Mr. Necromancer."

Charlotte stared at Legba Dando and smiled.

PS: I will try to update more after the release. Some readers said that I can offer rewards for more updates, but after thinking about it, I still think it is not necessary. In fact, the amount of each update is very solid, and I have to revise it repeatedly, so the typing speed is not fast, and it is very brain-consuming. If a reader really rewards me, I will feel guilty if I can't pay it back. ]q裙1榴8贰17七伊6

Volume 40: Chapter 36 Chapter Necromancer (VI)

Charlotte dragged her feet and refused to take the initiative to attack, just to wait for the sun to set, for the temperature to drop, and for the sea breeze to turn into a land breeze.

The oncoming wind mercilessly blew away Legba Dando's fatal blow, and his wild and twisted smile gradually froze on his face.

In the flickering light of the torches, Charlotte smiled gently, but that smile was undoubtedly a mockery in Legba Dando's eyes, mocking his incompetence and stupidity.

puff.

Finally, Legba Dando knelt down, raised his hands above his head, and shouted: "I surrender, I really surrender. Your Excellency Viscount Lanwan, I am willing to serve you. As long as you can forgive my mistakes, I am willing to swear to Ige and be loyal to you for life."

Ryan Nasazzi walked up to the kneeling Legba Dando, raised his shield, and slammed it into the necromancer's face.

Legba Dando was beaten so hard that he rolled on the ground, spitting out a mouthful of blood with two broken teeth in it. Even so, he was still shouting vaguely: "I am a four-winged necromancer. I am willing to serve the Viscount. I can help the Viscount achieve immortality. I can be of great use to you..."

Seeing this scene, both the southern knights and the northern knights were a little dazed for a moment - they actually hunted a four-winged warlock. In their previous view, a two-winged warlock was considered a master, a three-winged warlock was a big shot, and a four-winged warlock was simply an unattainable existence.

However, now the four-winged necromancer was lying on the ground begging for mercy, like an old dog whimpering after being beaten.

Ryan Nasazzi stepped on Legba Dando's back, took out a dagger, and cut the necromancer's thigh to bleed him.

Bleeding is a very common method used in this world to restrain warlocks. Generally speaking, with a large amount of blood loss, the warlock's extraordinary power will quickly weaken. This method is very effective against warlocks of most factions. This is also one of the reasons why many factions believe that blood is the carrier of extraordinary power in the warlock's body.

At the same time, Charlotte asked, "Who are you? Why did you come to my territory? Why did you kill my people?"

"My name is Regba Dando. I am not only a four-winged sorcerer, but also an elder of the city-state of Feidi..." Regba Dando told the whole story of his origins, how he was hunted down by the Inquisition, how he was blocked by the checkpoint of Viscount Lanwan's territory, how he sneaked into Viscount Lanwan's territory, how he was neglected by the villagers of Qingyu Village, and finally how he killed people in anger.

He especially emphasized how badly the ignorant villagers of Qingyu Village treated him, to show that he had disrupted the peace of Viscount Lanwan's territory and it was all a complete misunderstanding.

"Are you from Feidi?" Charlotte nodded slightly. "I heard that Feidi is at war with Delmer. How is the recent war situation?"

"Battle situation?" Legba Dando didn't know why Charlotte asked this question, but he quickly answered, "Recently, the biggest battle recently should be the Battle of Etto. You must know that Etto is the city-state at the southernmost tip of the Sokya Peninsula. It originally belonged to our Aiye Alliance, but now it has been captured by the Delme Alliance. Of course, there is also some intelligence proving that it was the defenders in Etto who took the initiative to lay down their arms to the Delme Alliance. After all, the Delme Alliance has besieged Etto for two years. After losing Etto, we almost completely lost the Liuyun Strait. Even though I am from Feidi, I have to admit that the balance of victory is tilting towards Delme..."

The Liuyun Strait is located to the south of the Sokya Peninsula and is also located at the southernmost tip of the entire Eagle Continent. Across the Liuyun Strait is another continent, the Wolf Continent. The importance of its geographical location is self-evident.

In order to prove his worth to Charlotte, Legba Dando told her everything he knew. For example, he revealed that the Elders' Council of the Fidelity City-State was willing to negotiate with Delme. This kind of news was almost impossible for outsiders to know, and if it were released to the outside world, it would undoubtedly be a bombshell that would shake the entire Sokya Peninsula.

The war between the Aiye Alliance and the Delme Alliance has been going on for many years. Both sides are exhausted, but neither side is willing to admit defeat. Because this war has gradually evolved from a simple land dispute between several city-states to a comprehensive conflict in economy, politics, culture, history, resources, etc. Anyone who sees it will think that this is a situation of no end.

But now the Philippine Council of Elders said, "We want to negotiate."

Feidi is the undisputed leader of the Aiye Alliance. Other city-states in the Aiye Alliance have to pay a "joining fee" to Feidi every year - called "war tax" - to provide Feidi with funds to maintain its army and fight against the Delme Alliance.

This "franchise fee" is not cheap. It often accounts for one-fifth or even one-third of the annual income of a medium-sized city-state. In order to raise annual war taxes, some small city-states even had to reduce the subsidies given to ordinary citizens, causing complaints within the city-state. Some citizens of small city-states had just returned from serving on the battlefield, seriously injured or even disabled. After returning home, they found that the allowances that were used to ensure their future living were gone. How could they not feel resentful?

Even so, the other member states of the Aiye Alliance have continued to support Feidi in leading this war for ten years.

Now, you actually say you want to negotiate?

Charlotte knew without thinking how the people in the Aiye Alliance would react if the news of Feidi's desire for peace talks got out. If the news could be confirmed, it would not be surprising if the entire alliance fell apart overnight.

Seeing that Charlotte asked so many detailed questions, Legba Dando thought that he had a chance to surrender, so he began to promote his talents: "Not only can I tell you about the knowledge of necromancers, but I can also help you govern your territory. Our Dando family has served as elders in the city-state of Fidelity for three consecutive generations, and my father is also the most famous reformer in Fidelity. If you are willing to appoint me as the governor of your territory, I will definitely be able to govern your territory as prosperous as Fidelity."